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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Islam in a Nutshell - Is it really a religion of peace?

An interesting article I believe is worthy of sharing here.  It brings up some good information that I believe might open our eyes to the need to evangelize this group as aggressively as possible.
Adapted from  Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The
Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat


Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.

Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.

When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.

Here's how it works:

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:

United States -- Muslim 0.6%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1.8%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:

Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby
securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the
entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and
results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam,  with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections in:

Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53..1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax
placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

'Before I was nine, I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe
against the world, and all of us against the infidel. -- Leon Uris, 'The Haj'

It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which
they live by Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into
the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and
extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.

Today's 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the
world's population by the end of this century.

Well, boys and girls, today we are letting the fox guard the henhouse. The wolves will be herding the sheep!

Obama appoints two devout Muslims to Homeland Security posts. Doesn't this make you feel safer already?

Obama and Janet Napolitano appoint Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).

NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...?  Just wondering.

Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions? Doesn't this make you feel safer already??

Also: This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish.

Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities.

Can a good Muslim be a good American? This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years.

The following is his reply:

Theologically - no . . . Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon God of Arabia
Religiously – no… Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256)(Koran)
Scripturally - no… Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran.
Geographically – no… Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.
Socially - no… Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews..
Politically - no…Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan.
Domestically - no… Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34)
Intellectually - no… Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
Philosophically - no… Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression.. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually - no… Because when we declare 'one nation under God,' the Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in The Quran's 99 excellent names.
Therefore, after much study and deliberation....
Perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS
in this country. - - - They obviously cannot be both 'good' Muslims and good Americans.
Call it what you wish, it's still the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future. The religious war is bigger than we know or understand.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Why is the world in such a mess?

Why is the world in such a mess?
Because Christians are not getting the job done that Christ commanded us to do.
Christians have laid down on the job, or surrendered so much to the ways of the world that the world can't even tell us apart anymore, much less be influenced by us.
Christians live in fear of the world, thinking they have no right to stand up for Christ anymore.  When the Bible change? It didn't. When did God's power diminish? It hasn't? When did the promises of God get nullified? They didn't.  When were the commands of God retracted? They weren't.
The Bible clearly says in 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.  If the spirit of fear did not come from God, where did it come from?  Why have Christians turned into a bunch of weak-knee'd, frightened little people.  Why are we sitting idly by while our opportunity to preach Jesus to this lost, dying, sin-sick world passes away. 

Jesus could return tomorrow! Hello!? Can anyone hear me?  He could return tomorrow, and if He does, what will He find you doing? Will you be hiding in a dark corner somehwere worrying about how wicked the world has become, or will you be on a street corner somewhere trying to tell somebody about Jesus?  The gospel of Jesus Christ is the ONLY hope for this up-side down world of ours, and as long as we allow our lives to be dominated by worldly practices, and our minds controlled by the "political correctness" of a godless media, it won't get any better.
So, let's quit being cowards and start standing up for Christ.
The great commission is still in effect.

Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Saudi's Crown Prince Now A Believer in Jesus Christ

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz died on Saturday, so it is certain he now believes in Jesus Christ. Sadly, however, for him it is one day too late.Sadly, he learned too late that Allah is not God, and that Muhammed is not a prophet, that the religion of Islam is a lie.
Sadly, he learned too late that Jesus Christ is God and that He came in the flesh and died for the sins of all mankind (including Prince Nayef's), and rose to live again.
Sadly, he learned too late that salvation is by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ: salvation is the gift of God - not earned and never deserved by any man.

God mercifully gave Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz 78 or 79 years to accept Jesus as his Saviour.  For him it is now too late. But, it is not too late for you.
You still have a chance to be saved, and spend etenity in heaven with the risen LORD.  You can still be forgiven of all your sins, cleansed as white as snow.

This is what the Bible says about how to be saved:
  • John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
  • John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
  • Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
  • Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
  • Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
  • Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved ...
  • Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
  • John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Place your faith for heaven in the Lord Jesus Christ today. He's the one who loves you.  He's the one who died for you. He's the one who can forgive you and save your eternal soul.  He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can go to heaven except through Him.

Don't wait till it's too late.  Don't wait till it will be said of you as it was of a rich man mentioned in Luke 16:23, "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments...."

Hell is forever, but so is the forgiveness you can find in Jesus Christ.


Saturday, June 9, 2012

When Will They Wake Up?

When will the HipHop world awaken to the fact that their "music" encourages a lifestyle that very often leads to tragedy.  The examples set by their singers (their idols) and the lyrics they sing encourage discontent and rebellion.  Everywhere I looked in America, the influence of HipHop was so apparent.  So many desiring to somehow be "different" felt compelled to walk, act, talk, and dress exaclty like their idols on stage - thus desiring to being different they all looked the same.  I never encountered anyone under the heavy influence of HipHop that was full of joy and contentment, but rather full of rage and without hope.

Today, as I read the news headlines, I was saddened to see the violent end of yet another HipHop Rapper.  Nineteen year-old Melvin Vernell III, known in the HipHop world by his nickname of Lil Phat, was shot to death while sitting in his car in a hospital parking lot. Another murderous end to a short, wasted life.

What follows is a quick list I pulled from the internet of rappers whose lives have been cut short by violence. Their lifestyle choices had taken them to dangerous places and brought them into contact with people who place no value on a human life.  When will the HipHop world awaken to the awful danger that has taken hold on a complete generation of young men and is quickly drawing them into a deadly downward spiral?

 1. Big L
 2. Bad News Brown (musician)
 3. Camoflauge
 4. Charizma
 5. Fat Pat (rapper)
 6. Fat-Tone
 7. Freaky Tah
 8 .Big Hawk
 9. Blade Icewood
10. Jam Master Jay
11. Yaki Kadafi
12. Mac Dre
13. Half a Mill
14. The Notorious B.I.G.
15. Seagram (rapper)
16. Tupac Shakur
17. Magnolia Shorty
18. Slim Dunkin
19. Soulja Slim
20. Stretch (rapper)
21. VL Mike
22. Lil Phat

What did these young men all have in common besides their "music"  and the way their lives were tragically cut short?  Each one had an eternal soul for whom Christ died.  Christ wanted every one of these young men put their faith for heaven in Him so they could be saved from the awful, eternal, and fiery punishment of hell.

Where are their eternal souls today?  The pursuit of riches, worldly fame, and fleshly pleasures of this life continually distracts millions from placing their faith in the Lord.  A lifestyle that encourages (even glorifies) danger, drugs, prison, violence, and rebellion will do great harm to untold thousands of young men. Indeed, it already has.

When will the HipHop world awaken?  How many young lives have to be wasted and violently cut short before people see the foolishness of this way?  When will the foolishness end?

Doubtless, many on the list above thought they had many years to deal with the issue of their sin before a holy God.  Sadly, their end came too soon and caught them by surpise. Now they will spend all eternity wishing they had made a different choice while they had the chance.

You have the chance today.  It is not too late for you to wake up and deal with your sin problem.  Don't put it off till tomorrow.  Tomorrow may never come. 

Click this link and see what the Bible says about
How to deal with your sin problem today


Friday, June 8, 2012

Što Biblija govori o Mariji?

Što Biblija govori o Mariji?

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

A Great Road Crew

It blesses my heart in a big way to lift up the name of Christ on the roadside for the whole community to see, and it is an extra-special blessing to have a lot of help doing it. These dear people have been setting aside time in their schedules to join me on the streets to get the word out to the Croatian people that Only Jesus Saves. The reaction of the town has been mixed, from complaints to indifference to praise. But the volume of responses makes it clear that many are paying attention. We believe in the power of the Word of God and just can't wait to see what God is going to do!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Mom and Dad doing OK

I received this new photo from my mother and dad recently.  I thought I would share it with the world.  Mom's beautiful, isn't she?

A Beautiful Backyard

A family that has been visiting our church invited me over for an afternoon of fellowship on Saturday. I was quite very happy to get to know them better and I was very impressed with the area they live in. These photos were taken looking out over their backyard, and then by a small lake just a few hundred yards away. The tiny house in one they built in their back yard.  It provides a nice place for peace and quiet. Croatia is a very beautiful place!





Richard Dawson - Heaven or Hell?

Anytime a famous person's death is published in the news, the first thought I have is, Did their eternal soul go to heaven or hell? Admittedly, I only know that I am saved and going to heaven and I cannot possibly know about anyone else.
However, I do know from the Bible that worldly fame can't take anyone to heaven.

The only one who can save is Jesus Christ. By faith in Him you can be saved, guaranteeing you a place in heaven for all eternity, regardless of your popularity, talent, or wealth.

Did Richard Dawson ever place his faith for salvation in Jesus Christ and Him alone? Only he and God know that. The only thing that matters to him now is his relationship with Jesus Christ.

This is what the Bible says about how to be saved:
  • John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
  • John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
  • Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
  • Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
  • Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
  • Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved ...
  • Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
  • John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Being world-famous for comedy and games shows doesn't save anyone from Hell. Having a fortune in worldly wealth doesn't purchase a place in heaven. God is not impressed with worldly fame, or great riches or professional talent.

God sent His only begotten Son Jesus to die on the cross to pay for Richard Dawson's sins. God offered him the free gift of eternal life, if only he would believe on Jesus Christ and call out to Him for salvation. God gave Richard Dawson 79 years to accept the free gift of eternal life.

Did he ever receive Jesus as his personal Saviour? If not, it is eternally too late for him.

But it is not yet too late for you.
 
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